TODAY’S NOTABLE NEWS

After two decades as Creative Time’s artistic director and president, Anne Pasternak has been named as the next director of the Brooklyn Museum and will join the institution on September 1st. With this appointment—her first museum position—Pasternak becomes the first woman to head one of NYC’s two major “encyclopedic art museums,” the other being the Met. (via the New York Times)

A Dürer engraving and a Rembrandt etching are both missing from the Boston Public Library. The Dürer work, Adam and Eve(1504) is valued at $600,000, while Rembrandt’s Self Portrait with Plumed Cap and Lowered Sabre (1634) is worth $20,000–30,000. Police believe that the works may have been stolen in an inside job, and staff are undertaking an investigative search of the library’s 200,000-works-strong print collection. (via the Boston Herald)

Best of Instagram

Via @thebroadmuseum: “#ChrisBurden’s recently completed monumental performance sculpture #OdeToSantosDumont is now on temporary view at @LACMA. Catch a performance of the work before it’s gone.”

Via @crystalbridgesmuseum: “Like the wind stirring awake the grounds on this rainy morning, artist Alice Aycock sought ‘to visualize the movement of wind energy’ when creating her monumental sculpture, Maelstrom. Aycock will take part in a FREE onstage conversation with Curator Chad Alligood tomorrow, May 21, featuring highlights from her impressive artistic journey.”

Via @danielarsham: “I travel a lot for work. For the last 10 years I have made drawings on the back of the art in my hotel rooms. I made this one this morning in Cannes. #festivaldecannes”